[MlMt] Running one mail account completely separate from others

[Antonio Leding]

The only way I can see making this happen would be to create a library 
of each MM setup — one for each set of accounts — that would contain 
all necessary MM information such as config items, mail store, etc.  
Then, when it comes time to run MM, you would first need to “load” 
the appropriate library into the location MM is expecting to find its 
application stuff — i.e. ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate.

So for example, you might have this as the libraries:

* ~/mm_libs/current/account-set_1/
* ~/mm_libs/current/account-set_2/
* ~/mm_libs/backups/

Then, at MM runtime, instead of executing MM directly, you would instead 
run some script or Automator event that does something like:

**To run set #1:**

* cp ~/mm_libs/current/* ~/mm_libs/backups/[ RUN_TIMECODE ]/   <<< done 
before any data move for backup purposes; TIMECODE = YYMMDD_HHMMSS
* cp ~/mm_libs/account-set_1/ ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate
* Exec Mailmate

**To run set #2:**

* cp ~/mm_libs/current/* ~/mm_libs/backups/[ RUN_TIMECODE ]/   <<< done 
before any data move for backup purposes; TIMECODE = YYMMDD_HHMMSS
* cp ~/mm_libs/account-set_1/ ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate
* Exec Mailmate

Of course, you would probably want to add some cleanup at the end of the 
script or Automator event that would copy the set of files back to the 
library after closing MM.  I would also strongly suggest that the 
initial backup event be checked, double-checked, and triple-checked to 
ensure you always have a “last known good” copy of data.  And once 
data is copied to the BU location, it remains inviolate and never used 
directly.

This is all just some back of the napkin thoughts - not tried any of 
this.  I did do something many years back in Win2k days with VPN setup 
and network assignments but the idea is the same.  I also think most 
could be accomplished using Automator and then maybe a set of simple 
shell scripts. Not sure of your scripting expertise but definitely worth 
a try if you’re up for it.

Good luck…

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On 22 Dec 2020, at 8:26, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On 22 Dec 2020, at 8:58, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
>
>> I have a number of email accounts but I would like to run one account 
>> completely separate from other account, like "this is the only 
>> account currently visible for MailMate". This to avoid some mistakes 
>> that could have some undesirable consequences. I don't mind quitting 
>> MailMate switching from one configuration (with all email accounts 
>> except one) to another (with only one account), in fact this would be 
>> perfect for me.
>>
>> I assume this isn't possible in an easy way, but in case I'm wrong I 
>> would like to know how to do it. My current solution is simply to use 
>> Mail for that account ... but if I could use MailMate for all of 
>> them, great.
>>
>
> Depending on your needs and mail load, you might find it easiest
> to use a different application for the second account—Mail.app,
> etc. But that only works well when the secondary account has much
> less traffic, little enough that MailMate's advanced feature aren't as
> important.
>
>
>         --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb


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